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Chicago Police to Address Weekend Violence That Left Teen Dead

Chicago police plan to hold a press conference Monday morning to address weekend gun violence in the city that left at least six people dead and more than a dozen others wounded. Regina Waldroup reports.

Brian Jasso was shot and killed just before 7 a.m. Sunday in the 5100 block of West 47th Street in the city’s LeClaire Courts neighborhood, authorities said. Investigators said there were newspapers in the car where Jasso's body was found and they believed Jasso may have been delivering them at the time of the shooting.

"We think that was potentially a case of mistaken identity," Chief of Organized Crime Anthony Riccio said during a Monday morning news conference.

Jasso was sitting in the backseat of a Honda CR-V when it was rear-ended by a white vehicle, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner.

Family members said he was riding with his stepdad, Erik Campeano, a longtime newspaper delivery driver who was accompanying the teen along his route. Campeano said he was driving with Jasso near West 47th and Leamington when a white car flashed its high beams at their SUV.

The vehicle then began chasing the pair and when Campeano stopped, someone from inside the white car opened fire, he said.

Campeano said he pulled into a nearby BP gas station and told Jasso to run, but the teen wasn't responding. Jasso suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene.

In that shooting, which took place just before 10 p.m. Saturday in the 5900 block of South Richmond Street, a man and a woman were killed and another man was wounded when someone opened fire from the sidewalk as they drove by. Police said dozens of rifle casings were found at the scene.

An investigation into Jasso's death remained ongoing Monday, police said.